Guides

This isn't a comprehensive guide to Hometown/Mastodon/the fediverse in general; these are just the topics I consider most essential for flipping.rocks members to know about: privacy- and visibility-related settings; how individual and server-wide mutes and blocks work; and basic posting etiquette. For more resources, see e. g. Fedi.Tips.

• Timelines and post visibility

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  What the "Home", "Local", and "Federated" timelines are, plus the "local-only" option.

• Safety and privacy settings

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  Customizing how public or private your account and posts are.

• Filtering, muting, blocking

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  Various ways to hide certain posts or accounts and block accounts or servers, plus what to report.

• Server-wide muting/blocking

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  What it means when the server mutes/"silences" or blocks/"defederates from" other servers, and its effect on your followers or people you follow.

• Alt text, content warnings, and sensitive media

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  Making your posts accessible and truncating/hiding text and media.